Following Saturday’s Prologue and the first full stage of the rally raid in Ha’il on Sunday, the competitors were scheduled to face two days of Marathon during which they would not have been able to receive outside assistance from their teams.
But heavy downpours that began on Saturday afternoon in Ha’il and throughout the northern region of the country have flooded the Al Artawiyah bivouac, where the competitors were supposed to sleep in tents without their mechanics and equipment on Monday night.
As a result, rally organiser ASO has decided to turn stages 2 and 3 into normal days, with external assistance now allowed at the end of each stage.
The only change to the route is the second liaison section, which instead of finishing at Al Artawiyah will now finish at the Al Qaisumah bivouac, located 100km away from Kuwait. ASO is still working on this new link section and the necessary modifications required for Stage 3 on Tuesday.
Stage 2 will feature the first major chain of…
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